Impact of the Industrial Revolution on society

List of changes that may have come to peoples lives from the Industrial Revolution

• access to cheaper goods that are imported from other parts of the world
• better availability of products due to mass production
• better transportation for people and food
• food would no longer have to be produced locally
• gives more time for people to focus on other things
• new innovations can occur due to this
• land would no longer determine wealth 
• new jobs would emerge when machines replace handmade productions 
• people would define wealth by material possessions 
• the value of religious practices may depreciate 
• value of human labor deprecates 
• urbanization
• gender roles that existed before the revolution change

Based on the Luddite response to the industrial revolution that was splendidly described by Horrible Histories, there were people who were extreme reactionaries who opposed the change. They did not like the way machines were replacing their labor and devaluing human labor.